Question asked by The Parisian This morning. “ The President of the Republic will speak this Monday evening to try to relaunch his five-year term after the complicated debates on pensions. Displacements will follow to try to stop mistrust. Essential step, if he wants to relaunch his second five-year term hampered by a social and political crisis. Alert rating, according to several polling institutes, his popularity is at its lowest level since the yellow vests crisis, around 28%. »
So watch out, warn The cross…” One of the great lessons of the pension crisis is the fragility of the national political level. Of course, the law is passed. But the government only owed its salvation to the richness of the institutional toolbox of the Fifth Republic. The social reality is quite different, points out the Catholic daily, with a majority opinion hostile to the reform and a solid trade union front, which firmly expressed its refusal while showing its sense of responsibility. The executive can claim a form of efficiency, but at what cost? Now approaching a new phase of his five-year term, Emmanuel Macron must become aware, estimated La Croix, that the weakness of its parliamentary majority reflects the unhappiness of very many voters. This malaise must be taken into account through consultation, dialogue and the various democratic modalities. Before rushing again, we should listen. »
Faintness…
” How can Emmanuel Macron reconcile with the French? », wonders in echo Le Figaro. ” The rest of his second term will depend on his ability to renew himself. The famous great debate organized to extinguish the sling of the Yellow Vests had created an illusion. He hadn’t settled anything, the proof. Fine words fly away, only concrete actions count. More than ever, the promise to tackle the restoration of public services, school and health in particular, seems relevant. Formulated on the occasion of the health crisis, it has remained a dead letter. This is how the unease grew. »
A very deep malaise… Democracy is in danger, is alarmed Release. ” Speaking to the French this Monday evening, Emmanuel Macron is a head of state deeply weakened, in France as on the international scene, by three months of a fight against his own people. His victory established, he may be surprised to see his opponents still standing and ready for battle; is that the only loser of this inexplicable game, sigh Liberation, is French democracy. »
A democracy in poor health for three quarters of the French…
Release which publishes this survey, carried out by the Viavoice institute, which indicates that more than three out of four French people (76% of those questioned) believe French democracy is currently ‘in poor health’, while 39% are even more critical, judging it even ‘in very poor health’. The reasons ? They are 74% to think that the poor health of democracy is due at least in part to the fact that elected officials are ‘disconnected from the realities of the French’. In a context of high inflation, everyone can see the danger that this impression represents, pointing out Release reinforced by the stubbornness of the President of the Republic to pass a reform disconnected from the immediate concerns of the French. Does Macron understand this? Until then, the majority of French people answered in the negative.
Draw a collective path?
” Where to find the strength that is lacking? ask Les Echos. ” Not in a dissolution, which in such a climate would further reduce Macronist forces. Not in a referendum, undoubtedly doomed to failure. A priori not in an upcoming change of Prime Minister. No political initiative seems appropriate. »
SO “ if he does not want to stay bogged down, Emmanuel Macron will have to reconnect with his disruptive DNA and surprise, exclaims The world. By starting by drawing a collective path, which he was unable, or did not want, to do during the campaign (presidential and legislative), in order to preserve his chances of seducing sometimes on the right, sometimes on the left, depending on the circumstances. ‘I am in the pulse of the nation’, he prevailed. He who, conversely, seemed to ignore all the signals sent to him by the French since January, will have to find the words. »